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University of Minnesota Researchers Control Flying Robot with Only the Mind
Bin He | Via University of Minnesota | June 5, 2013Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering have developed a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using only their mind. The study goes far beyond fun and games and has the potential to help people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases. The study was published […]
Mind Over Mechanics
Bin He | Via University of Minnesota | June 4, 2013It’s a staple of science fiction: people who can control objects with their minds. At the University of Minnesota, a new technology is turning that fiction into reality. In the lab of biomedical engineering professor Bin He, several young people have learned to use their thoughts to steer a flying robot around a gym, making […]
Colburn to Receive Prestigious Auditory Neuroscience Award
H. Steven Colburn | Via Boston University | June 3, 2013The Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) has selected Professor H. Steven Colburn(BME) as the 2014 recipient of its Award of Merit, a lifetime achievement award recognizing outstanding contributions to the study of the ear, nose and throat. Colburn is founder and director of the Boston University Hearing Research Centerand a leading expert on how the brain’s […]
Penn Research Shows Way to Improve Stem Cells’ Cartilage Formation
Robert L. Mauck | Via University of Pennsylvania | June 3, 2013Cartilage injuries are difficult to repair. Current surgical options generally involve taking a piece from another part of the injured joint and patching over the damaged area, but this approach involves damaging healthy cartilage, and a person’s cartilage may still deteriorate with age. Bioengineers are interested in finding innovative ways to grow new cartilage from […]
NIH Director Meets with Research University Representatives
Todd C. McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News Center | June 1, 2013Georgia’s research university community recently welcomed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Collins met with administrators and researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, the University of Georgia (UGA), Georgia State University and Morehouse School of Medicine during his May 30 visit to Atlanta. Research university representatives highlighted NIH-funded […]
NJIT Professor to Lecture on How Technology Advances Healthcare
Atam P. Dhawan | Via New Jersey Institute of Technology | May 30, 2013NJIT Distinguished Professor and electrical engineer Atam Dhawan hits the lecture trail again this summer as a distinguished speaker for an IEEE life sciences lecture series. His focus will be how “Point of Care Healthcare” can reduce illness, improve the quality of life, and stop spiraling healthcare costs. Dhawan, who will stop at conferences in […]
Khosrow Behbehani Named Dean of the UT Arlington College of Engineering
Khosrow Behbehani | Via University of Texas at Arlington | May 24, 2013Khosrow Behbehani, a noted biomedical researcher, inventor and chairman of the UT Arlington Department of Bioengineering, has been appointed dean of the University’s College of Engineering. Behbehani joined The University of Texas at Arlington in 1985 and has served as chairman of his department since 2002. He holds nine patents, with one patent pending, and […]
Khademhosseini Receives Technical Achievement Award for Biomedical Engineering
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Brigham & Women's Hospital | May 21, 2013Ali Khademhosseni, PhD, the principal investigator in the Khademhosseini Laboratory in BWH’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the 2013 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The award will be presented at the EMBS’s annual meeting in July in Japan. The Technical Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have made […]
High-Tech Gel Could Be New Diabetes Treatment
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 20, 2013For Type 1 diabetes sufferers, constant monitoring of insulin and blood sugar levels is both inconvenient and time consuming. But now there is some good news: An MIT project currently underway could allow the body to do it automatically. MIT researchers have created a type of nanoparticle—for those of us not enrolled at MIT, that’s an extremely […]
Top Innovators in Massachusetts
Omid Farokhzad | Via The Boston Globe | May 19, 2013Big thinker Omid Farokhzad is thinking small. How small? “The typical nanotechnology we develop is on the order of 100 nanometers in size, enough to put a thousand side by side on the cross-section of a hair,” said Farokhzad, 44, a biotech pioneer who believes he has found the silver bullet in medicine — targeted […]
Meet U of T’s Inventors of the Year
Milos Popovic | Via University of Toronto | May 17, 2013“The Inventor of the Year Award is meant to recognize inventions that have the potential to improve our quality of life,” said Professor Paul Young, vice-president (research and innovation). “The winning inventions represent the very best of innovation at U of T, and on behalf of the University, I extend my congratulations.” To qualify for […]
Bear Cub Grants Foster Entrepreneurship
David Beebe | Via Washington University in St. Louis | May 16, 2013Scientists are natural problem solvers, full of innovative ideas. But moving those ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace can be difficult, even for those with an entrepreneurial bent. In part, that’s because federal research dollars typically don’t support the proof-of-concept studies needed to demonstrate the feasibility of a promising new technology or diagnostic test. […]
West Caldwell Doctor Honored for Bone Research
Adele Boskey | Via Hospital for Special Surgery | May 16, 2013Hospital for Special Surgery has honored Dr. Adele Boskey of West Caldwell, for her research in osteoporosis and her role as a mentor to young scientists. Boskey was recognized at a symposium on the latest research in bone mineralization and its role in bone disease at the hospital in New York City on May 2. […]
Richard Waugh Appointed Associate Vice President for Research
Richard Waugh | Via University of Rochester | May 16, 2013Richard Waugh, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed to the newly-created position of associate vice president for research. “Rick has been collaborating with researchers on both the River Campus and the School of Medicine and Dentistry for more than three decades,” said Robert Clark, senior vice president for research. “His great […]
‘Folding Materials’ Researchers Earn NSF Grant
Dan Luo | Via Cornell Chronicle | May 16, 2013Cornell researchers Jenny Sabin, assistant professor of architecture, and Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering, are among the lead investigators on a new research project to produce “buildable, bendable and biological materials” for a wide range of applications. Sabin and Luo will share in a $2 million, four-year National Science Foundation grant with […]
Nanotechnology Could Help Fight Diabetes
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 15, 2013Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin. The nanoparticles were designed to sense glucose levels in the body and respond by secreting the appropriate amount of insulin, thereby replacing the function of pancreatic islet cells, […]
Using Clay to Grow Bone
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Harvard Gazette | May 15, 2013Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are the first to report that synthetic silicate nanoplatelets (also known as layered clay) can induce stem cells to become bone cells without the need of additional bone-inducing factors. Synthetic silicates are made up of simple or complex salts of silicic acids, and have been used extensively […]
Engineered Biomaterial Could Improve Success of Medical Implants
Buddy Ratner | Via University of Washington | May 14, 2013It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve or device, causing complications to an already compromised system. Expensive, state-of-the-art medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by the body’s natural response to attack something in the tissue that appears foreign. Now, University of […]
New PhD Program in Molecular Engineering Marks Historic First for UChicago
Matthew Tirrell | Via UChicago News | May 14, 2013The University of Chicago will offer an engineering PhD for the first time, emphasizing the development of solutions to technological problems of society based on molecular-level science. “Traditional engineering schools divide engineering into disciplines; IME combines disciplines into a new approach to engineering research and education,” said Matthew Tirrell, the Pritzker Director of the Institute […]
Prof DeLisa Selected as the 2013 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator
Matthew P. DeLisa | Via Cornell University | May 13, 2013Professor Matthew DeLisa was selected as the 2013 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator. “This award recognizes outstanding excellence in research and practice contributed to the field of biochemical engineering by a young community member. The award and associated lecture are presented on an annual basis either at the Annual AIChE meeting in conjunction with the FPBE […]